Annotation:Columbus Cotillion

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COLUMBUS COTILLION. AKA and see "Drunken Sailor (1)." American, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Printed c. 1792. A precursor to the play-party song "Going to Boston," and the old-time tune "Goodbye Girls I'm Going to Boston." As a children's rhyme/song the melody was at one time heard as "One little, two little, three little Indians" or "Here we sit like birds in the wilderness."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Vivian Williams (Seattle) [Williams].

Printed sources : - Stuart Williams (The Evergreen Fiddler, vol. II), 2006; p. 16.

Recorded sources : - Vivan Williams - "Fiddle Tunes of the Lewis and Clark Era."

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